Jobs and earnings in Rossie, and the trip to work
Working residents average 14 minutes each way, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. Home is the office for 23% of workers (Iowa 11%). Hardly any stay in Rossie for work; outside it, Sioux City is the main destination (18%, 71 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Rossie
On a workday 17 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 27 people come in from elsewhere.
About 56 people are in Rossie on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Rossie, and from where
Where Rossie clocks in
18% of workers
12% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Rossie makes things: 37% of its jobs are in goods
27 jobs are based in Rossie.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rossie, 2013 → 2023: 43 → 27. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rossie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 14 minutes in Rossie
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rossie workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 30 commuters (the 23% who work from home are left out). Across Iowa: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Half of Rossie commutes less than 49 miles
About 47% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Rossie: questions
What is the poverty rate in Rossie?
8.0%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rossie?
14 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rossie work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sioux City (18%, 71 mi), Spirit Lake (12%, 28 mi), Spencer (12%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Rossie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rossie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rossie
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.